The Search for Rational Drug ControlCambridge University Press, 1995 M08 25 - 240 pages This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States. How are policy choices identified, debated and selected? How are the consequences of governmental policy measured and evaluated? How, if at all, do we learn from our mistakes? Zimring and Hawkins present different ways of understanding American drug policy and provide a foundation for an improved policy process. They argue that protection of children and youth should shape policy toward illicit crime, with attention to the fact that youth protection objectives may limit the effectiveness of some drug controls. |
Contents
Ideology and policy A look at the National Drug Control Strategy | 4 |
What is a drug? And other basic issues | 22 |
Prohibitions and the lessons of history | 45 |
The wrong question Critical notes on the decriminalization debate | 82 |
The drug control policy process | 111 |
Introduction | 113 |
The universal proposition Children and drug control policy | 115 |
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